The IPO Market Recovered in 2017, With Some Major Exceptions

Roku was a winner. Snap was not.

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Chelsey Dulaney

Dec 29, 2017 10:00 am ET

Companies returned to the U.S. initial public offering market in 2017–with middling returns. U.S. IPOs returned an average 21% in 2017, while proceeds raised nearly doubling from 2016, according to a report from Renaissance Capital, an IPO investment advisory firm. The returns are “respectable by historic standards, but only in line with the broader market indexes,” […]